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The Toronto link to attacks

Toronto: The Lashkar-e-Taiba has been linked to recent terrorist plots in several Western countries including Canada. The LeT followers have been accused of planning attacks in Toronto, Britain, Australia and U.S., National Post has reported.

At least five suspects associated with the “Toronto 18 — described by police as a homegrown extremist group accused of plotting attack on Parliament Hill in 2006 in Ottawa and detonate truck bombs near the CN Tower in Toronto — allegedly travelled to Pakistan to train at Lashkar camps, the newspaper reported. Canada placed the Lashkar-e-Taiba on its list of outlawed terrorist groups in 2003. — PTI

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